Who is OPENAIR-MARKET NET?
This site was conceived by Steve Balkin and Alfonso Morales with the aid of a board of advisors and the cyber help of Barbara Balkin. Steve is an economics professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago, director of the Self-Employment Research Project, a frequent visitor to open air markets, and an advocate who, with many others, tried but failed to save the old Maxwell Street Market in Chicago. This site is also managed by Alfonso Morales, a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has done extensive field research on markets and, likewise, was an advocate for the old Maxwell Street Market.
